Armed, Confederate flag-waving White Lives Matter protesters rally outside Houston NAACP

Michael E. Miller
Last Updated: Monday, August 22, 2016 4:55am

... Clutching Confederate flags, white supremacist signs and, in several cases, assault rifles, roughly 20 White Lives Matter members stood on the sidewalk of a historically black neighborhood to denounce the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

"We came out here specifically today to protest against the NAACP and their failure in speaking out against the atrocities that organizations like Black Lives Matter and other pro-black organizations have caused the attack and killing of white police officers, the burning down of cities and things of that nature," organizer Ken Reed told the Houston Chronicle. "If they're going to be a civil rights organization and defend their people, they also need to hold their people accountable."

Reed, who was wearing a "Donald Trump '16" hat and a "White Lives Matter" shirt with white supremacist symbols, said protesters were "not out here to instigate or start any problems," despite the weaponry and body armor on display ...

Sunday's rally was not the nation's first White Lives Matter protest. Others have drawn similarly small crowds, such as a July 30 protest in Buffalo that was organized by neo-Nazis and also was dwarfed by counter-protests ...

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